This 6-stroke character began as a Bronze Age imag

Originally a pictograph of islands rising between

This 3-stroke character began as a bird’s-eye vie

This 'towering' character hides a blade: its right

Though it looks like a mountain, 嵌 is all about p

Originally a pictograph of a mountain shattering,

Though it means 'hillock', 岗 is almost never used

This character’s 11 strokes visually reenact a cl

Originally a sacred mountain shrine in bronze scri

Born as 'mountains gripping' in ancient script, 峡

Its seal-script origin shows a climber straining u

Though it means 'peak', 峰’s right side is 丰 (f

This 'steep' character hides a stone-carving spoon

A mountain-shaped character that doesn’t mean mou

Though it looks like ‘mountain + strict’, 岩 was

This mountain-rooted character doesn’t just mean

This 'shoe' character evolved from an oracle bone

Though it looks like 'two bells over a corpse,' 屡

This 'crumb' character hides a moral punch: its an

This 'door-shutting' character (户 + forceful top)

This 7-stroke character began as a Bronze Age pict

This 3-stroke character began as a living person s

This 7-stroke character began as a picture of a li

It looks like 'small above, big below' — but that

This ‘temple’ character began as a Han Dynasty g

Originally a thumb-width mark on the wrist, this 3

This 'examine' character hides a courtroom under i

This 'sleep' character began as a person lying fac

This ‘night’ character hides a rooftop full of s

This 10-stroke character began as a Bronze Age pic

This 'eternity' character isn’t abstract — it’s

Originally a roof-sheltered ancestral altar, 宗 ev

This 'great' character hides in plain sight — its

Though it means 'room,' 宇 has never been about fo

This elegant 6-stroke character began as a Bronze

This 'lone' character was once how kings humbly ad

This 'hole' character hides Confucius himself — e

This 'infant' character began as a picture of a ri

Born from 'woman' + 'elevated elegance', 娇 isn't

This 'dislike' character hides a woman holding two